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100 Best Websites For Writers
Over at TheWriteLife.com they’ve posted their list of 100 Best Websites For Writers in 2014.
I’ve just done a cursory sweep through their list and noted that many of the sites on their list are ones I already keep up with, but there are also some I am not familiar with so I’ll be doing some surfing to see what new resources I can add to my usual haunts.
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“Imply” or “Infer”
A lot of people, writers included, have difficulty with the proper usage of each of these words. I cringe when I see on TV or read in a book a character saying, “I don’t know what you’re trying to infer by that, but…”
Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl, has the clearest explanation for how each of these words can be used correctly. As you can see from her article, and the graphic accompanying this post, it’s dependent on whether you’re the writer or reader, speaker or listener.
Happy Birthday Jack London
Today is the birthday of novelist Jack London, who was born in San Francisco in 1876. He is best known as the author of over fifty books, including “The Call of the Wild” (1903) and “White Fang” (1906).
From The Writer’s Almanac:
London was mostly self-educated. He worked on a sealing schooner off the coast of Japan in 1893, and when he returned to America there were no jobs and he became a vagrant. In his memoir “The Road” (1907), London wrote about those days, including the tricks he used to evade train crews when he stowed away, and how he convinced strangers to buy meals for him. He even spent thirty days in jail in Buffalo, New York, before returning to California.
London graduated from high school in Oakland and then spent a year at the University of California before poverty forced him again to seek his living through adventure. He sailed to Alaska to join the Klondike Gold Rush, and when this did not make him rich, London turned to writing and began seriously to seek publication for his stories.
He came close to abandoning a career in writing when The Overland Monthly was slow to pay for a story they had accepted. But he was saved, both “literally and literarily,” when The Black Cat accepted his story “A Thousand Deaths” and paid him forty dollars to publish it. In 1900, London’s short story “An Odyssey of the North” appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.
I think the first “real” novel (stepping up from Tom Swift, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books, which were more like novellas) I ever read, sometime around the age of 8 or 9, was “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London.
My mom was a voracious reader (a desire that was passed along to me from an early age) and she made sure our home was filled with books. She had an interesting set of hardback books known as “The Companion Library.” They were classics and modern classics that had one story on one side and then when you flipped the book over and turned it around there was a second story on that side, usually by the same author. I remember “Little Women” and “Little Men” by Louisa May Alcott, “Tarzan” and “The Return of Tarzan” by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Jack London book with “White Fang” on the other side, but I know there were 2 or 3 others that I can’t recall at the moment.
It was probably my love of dogs (something typical for most young boys AND I watched “Lassie” and “Rin Tin Tin” on TV every week, lol) and the paintings of a dog on each of the “flip flop” covers caused those to be the first book in that set that I asked my mother if I could read. After cautioning me that they might be a little too intense and grown up, she gave me permission with the understanding that I could stop if they upset me.
I read “Call of the Wild” first, entranced and saddened by the story of Buck and all the different (sometimes painful) experiences he had to go through under different, uncaring owners in Alaska after he was stolen from his easy life as a judge’s dog in California. My mom was right. She knew after watching me cry when Lassie or Rinnie (as Rin Tin Tin was nicknamed) were hurt or injured on TV that what I would read in London’s book might be upsetting to me. But I read it anyway and made sure I finished the story, just to show that I could do it. Then I put it back on the shelf and didn’t read “White Fang” until a few years later.
London passed away on November 22, 1916 at the too-young age of 40.
Some “Very” Good Words To Use To Avoid Using “Very”
Here’s a helpful chart, courtesy of Writers Write, providing 45 ways to avoid using the word “very” in your writing.
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Goodreads, By The Numbers
I love using Goodreads to track the books I read (I’ve set a goal of reading at least 52 books in 2014), connect with authors I enjoy reading, and reading reviews and recommendations from friends.
On January 1st, Goodreads Blog released the infographic below showing the growth in various areas of the website/community in the past year of 2013.
If you’re not already a member of Goodreads, I urge you to enhance your reading experience by joining this active and growing community.
Dream Desks
“Butt in the chair” is one mantra that writers live by and are encouraged to follow. The idea being that you won’t get any writing done if your butt is not in the chair.
In my own home office I have a simple folding chair and basic desk with drawer and cabinet. Since moving there 3 ½ years ago, I have been working on the road a majority of the time and have not had much opportunity to do a lot of work in my office, so the simple, basic desk and chair have worked well. But when I think about spending a lot of time in my office writing, I think about upgrading my desk and chair to something more comfortable over the long haul.
Today, MakeUseOf.com had an article up entitled “6+ Cool Work Desks Every Freelancer Should Own” and they are some cool desks indeed. Out of all the desks they list, I am partial to the Focal Upright Workstation seen in the video below:
But what I really want to get is one that they don’t list in this article, the treadmill desk. I’ve started walking a lot to improve my health and being able to combine walking with research and or writing, or even pleasure reading or video viewing, would be a great way to combine what I want to do with what I need to do.
Maybe in the future the mantra “Butt in the chair” will become “Feet on the treadmill.”
Welcome to the NEW Blog!
Hello, and Happy Ne
w Year!
In the spirit of starting anew, I’ve redesigned The Word Of Jeff website and moved my blog, which was formerly hosted at Blogger, here to the website to bring all my writing information and activities under one roof.
As you can see below, I’ve imported all my previous posts that were at Blogger (unfortunately, the RSS feed wording was imported in with each post too, but I can assure all that those are MY posts from MY site, lol) and that separate site will remain up for the foreseeable future with its old posts, but all new posts will be here.
So, Happy New Year to you and Happy New Home to me! I look forward to seeing you here. 🙂
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Douglas Adams would have turned 60 years old today if he had not sadly passed away 11 years ago at the too-early age of 49.
Reading his well-known “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and other not so well-known works such as “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”, one cannot help but be curious about what the pen of Adams might have written were he still with us these past 11 years.
“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” indeed.
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The Mac is Back! (In a manner of speaking)
I’m enjoying my new MacBook Pro. This is the first time I have owned an Apple computer, though I used them a decade ago when I was doing graphic art work for Hard Rock Cafe. This MacBook Pro is lightyears beyond the Apple desktops I used back then.
The only problem I’m running into is getting used to the Mac OS commands and key strokes. They are much more intuitive than the Windows OS and, because of that, quickly become the default for your mind and fingers. I use Windows XP at work each day (no choice there) so now I have found myself trying to scroll down a page using the “2-finger” stroke on the touchpad, clicking the touchpad once to activate a link and other various Mac OS commands that just won’t work on Windows. Sometimes it can be amusing, sometimes it can be frustrating.
But after work, when I’m on my MacBook, it is pure enjoyment.
Any of my fellow writers have Apple/Mac OS tips they can offer to smooth out the workflow, or programs they might recommend as especially helpful to writers? I’d love to give them a try.
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Writers and Kitties
Are you a writer? Do you have a kitty? Then you will feel at home perusing this photoblog titled, appropriately enough, Writers and Kitties. Famous writers photographed with their beloved feline friends.
I am torn between Raymond Chandler and his jet black kitty and Mark Twain and his striped kitty, but who could ignore Hemingway and one of his kitties?
Go take a look and decide which is your favorite.
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Bookshelf Porn
My brother sent me the link to Bookshelf Porn because, as he put it, “Why I figured you would like this site?? It only has your two favorite words in one site name!” Well, he’s right. “Book” and “Shelf” are my two favorite words, lol.
Anyway, people who love books tend to love shelves full of books and this site is, “A photo blog collection of all the best bookshelf photos from around the world for people who *heart* bookshelves.”
Since I thought that would be most of you, I decided to share it here with you. Enjoy!
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10 Great U.S. Libraries
We’re still observing National Library Week 2011. Whenever I travel, whether for work or pleasure, I love to visit the local library of whatever town or city I am staying. Here’s an article from USAToday in which Rebecca Miller of Library Journal magazine shares ten of her favorite library locations.
I am sad to say that I have only visited one of these ten; the New York Public Library. I have always wanted to visit the Library of Congress, but on my one and only trip to Washington, D.C. I passed on a couple of places I hoped to visit in deference to wanting my children to see other historical sites and the Library of Congress was one of those places on which I passed. I’m sure that some day I will get back there and if so I plan to spend as much time as I am able wandering through the Thomas Jefferson Building.
But I can see that I would love to visit ALL of the other libraries on Ms. Miller’s list and hopefully my personal or work-related travels will take me to each of them.
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National Library Week 2011
It’s the middle of National Library Week 2011, so I thought I’d post how important libraries have been and are in my own life.
The first library in my life was my elementary school library. When I started in first grade there, I was already reading thanks to a mom who encouraged reading in her little word-sponge son. Even though the school library was perhaps twenty feet wide and seventy feet long, to a six-year old it looked huge. But by the time I was in third grade, I had finished reading just about every book in the school library, some of them more than once.
Fortuitous timing saw the opening of a brand new public library in our neighborhood the summer between fourth and fifth grades when the John F. Kennedy Library opened its doors in July of 1965. Until this time, I had consumed the previously mentioned school library books, any and all books my mom would buy for me or let me buy (including comic books, a subscription to the Time-Life Science and Nature Library, Encyclopedia Brittanica and paperback novels from the local drugstore) as well as books on my mom’s own bookshelf (my dad, having left school after the eighth grade, was not much of a reader, comparatively speaking). But I had not yet been in a public library for, I think, two reasons. The first was that there was no public library in our area of town, at least that I can recall, and I believe that was why the new library was opened so close to us, so that there would be a library to serve that area’s citizens. The second was that, at that time, the library required you to be ten years old to have a library card. I turned ten just before the library opened.
If I remember correctly, my mom took me to the brand new library on a Saturday morning. What I DO remember, without any doubt, is the feelings that coursed through my heart and mind when we stepped into that two-story building for the first time. It was as if someone had created a place just for me! A place full of books! Books of all kinds! Two full floors in a building the size of half a city block and full of books!
Those books represented worlds, places, people and times that I could explore or escape to as I was reading them. They represented entertainment and education. They represented the opportunity to expand my mind through the words of others, and they represented ideas, beliefs and feelings that I could examine, investigate and absorb or discard as I determined,
They had a children’s section that held twice as many books as my school library, and that section was only a small corner portion of the entire building. The best part, though, was that with my mom’s signature on my library card, I could check out books from EVERY section of the library (with the exception, of course, of the reference section where books were not typically allowed to leave the building), which opened vast vistas for exploration that my school library could not offer, since its borders stopped at a sixth-grade level.
Through the 45 years since that first visit, I have held library cards in every community in which I have resided and have continuously taken advantage of the opportunities their contents and services offered. This week I’ll be visiting the public library in my new community, as I have already done several times since we arrived here almost a year ago. I hope you will visit yours as well.
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E-Reader Guide to Devices, Formats and Bookstores
We’re halfway through Read an E-Book Week and it occurred to me that some who are new to E-Books might find it helpful to know more about the different kinds of E-Readers and E-Books that are available in order to make an informed decision based on what and how YOU read.
For instance, if you get most of your reading books from your local library, you’ll want an E-Reader that can access and display the E-Books your library provides, something that Kindle, for instance, can’t do. But if you order all of your books from Amazon, then the Kindle would be a natural for you.
Ben Richter has created an excellent slide display showing the most popular E-Readers, the formats they can display and where you can access E-Books for each particular E-Reader. Below is a screenshot of one of the slides. Surf on over to the full slide show.
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Read an E-Book Week, March 6 – 12, 2011
This week is Read an E-Book Week. E-Books have become immensely popular in the past 3-4 years, but did you know that e-books have been around for 40 years?
Dedicated e-readers such as Kindle, Nook, and others have exploded in sales and tablets like the iPad, which can also be used to read e-books, have practically gone nova is the amount of their sales.
A report made last October from the Association of American Publishers stated that eBooks sales grew 193% between January and August 2010, and a recent report from Amazon indicated that e-book sales have outstripped paperback book sales.
I have my wife’s old Kindle reader that I inherited after I gave her a new one for her birthday last year. Even though I had been reading e-books on my desktop computer, laptop computer and iPhone for years and had used the Kindle Reader App on my laptop and iPhone, I had never had a dedicated e-reader and wanted to see if I liked it well enough to add another device to my collection.
I like the ease of downloading books immediately from Amazon, but that is perhaps the only thing I REALLY like about the Kindle. I feel limited by it’s proprietary book format and it gets old having to email .pdf format documents to them so they will convert them to Kindle format so I can read them on the Kindle.
I LOVE the idea of an e-reader though! I travel a great deal and it is so much easier to load books (TEXT books. Anything with a lot of illustrations or graphics or color is a waste on the Kindle) on the e-reader and take one item instead of a multitude of books. E-books are economical, though they have been rising in price over the past several months, and I enjoy the ability to search them quickly and to make notes.
So I probably will eventually buy a more up to date e-reader to replace this first generation Kindle I’m currently using. I just haven’t decided which one it will be, except that I’m reasonably sure it won’t be a Kindle.
Do you read e-books? Which e-reader do you use?
Happy “Read an E-Book Week”!!
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National Grammar Day 2011
Do you wince when someone uses poor grammar, whether writing or speaking? Does it make you cringe when someone writes “it’s” (a contraction of the two words “it is”) when they mean or are referring to “its” (the possessive form)? Does it pain you to hear someone say “I should of taken the train” instead of “I should have take taken the train”? Do your eyes narrow in displeasure when you see a sign that reads: “Patrons must wipe there (or they’re) feet before entering” instead of “Patrons must wipe their feet before entering”?
Then National Grammar Day is a day made for you, my friend.
Grammar, simply put, is the system of a language. Many like to think of it as the “rules” of a language.
I was fortunate to have teachers who were strong when it came to English Grammar during my elementary and junior high school years. They provided a solid foundation of the rules and system of correctly writing and speaking. I did not particularly care for diagramming sentences or identifying split infinitives, but learning grammar was not as difficult as math for me. I suspect it is one of those “right brain/left brain” issues. In any case, English Grammar came easier to me than other learning subjects. Though some have referred to me at times as a “Grammar Nazi”, the truth is that I am constantly learning and re-learning English Grammar.
And I hope you will too.
Happy National Grammar Day! Treat our language well.
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Top 10 Blogs For Freelance Writers
When it comes to freelance writing, there are a multitude of blogs on the Internet that deal with the subject matter of being a writer. Some are good, some are bad, but a select few are great. Below is my list of the Top 10 Blogs For Freelance Writers.
Please keep in mind that though I have sought to be objective, in reality lists like this are very subjective as their inclusion is based on the mindset of the person listing them. In other words, how the chosen blogs speak to the wants and needs of the reader. You may agree or disagree based on YOUR mindset, but I believe that in any case you will find excellent advice, wisdom, guidance and resources from these Top 10 Blogs For Freelance Writers.
10. Quips and Tips for Successful Writers – Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen is a freelance writer whose blog is full of great advice married with quotes that tie in with each post. She also has some extensive sections dealing with Articles and Query Writing, Newspapers and Magazines that I’ve found extremely helpful.
9. Procrastinating Writers – Jennifer Blanchard is a Writing and Creative Coach who launched Procrastinating Writers in 2008 to help her overcome her own writing procrastination, Her ultimate goal in the community that has developed through her site? To get writing done. As a lifelong procrastinator, I find her blog very relevant and helpful.
8. Writing From My Mountain – Kathryn Magendie’s site is one of those rare gems you stumble across by kismet. I freely admit that the only reason I first started reading this blog is because the author is a writer who lives on a mountain in Maggie Valley, NC, where I just moved last June. But it wasn’t long before I came to enjoy her sense of humor about life in general and writing in particular. Oh, and her photos. My goal, like the title of her blog, is to be writing from my mountain some day.
7. WordCount: Freelancing in the Digital Age – Michelle Rafter’s blog about writing and the business of being a freelance writer. Has a great advice column with realistic questions and sensible answers.
6. Write To Done – Leo Babauta, a journalist and publisher, writes this blog centering on the craft and art of writing.
5. Dollars and Deadlines – Kelly James-Enger is a regular contributor to The Writer magazine (one of my favorites) and a freelance writer who has written articles for more than 55 magazines and blogs here about freelancers and money. I’ve enjoyed and learned a great deal from her book, “Six-Figure Freelancing”
4. Writer Unboxed – Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton write this blog which specializes in helping genre-fiction writers by discussing the writing craft and interviewing writers who, as they say, “Have done it with style.” They have also conducted and posted interviews with a number of authors, including some of my favorites such as J.C. Hutchins, Joe Abercrombie and Audrey Niffenegger.
3. The Renegade Writer – Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell are published magazine writers who offer great advice and tips. There is a fantastic resource of 10 Free Query Letters (I downloaded these long ago) that were written by professional writers who landed freelance assignments with the included query letters. Linda also offers teleclasses for writers.
2. The Urban Muse – Susan Johnston covers a wide range of excellent topics that all writers will enjoy. An eclectic mix of pertinent subject matter that is real and down to earth, written by Ms. Johnston and guest bloggers. After discovering her site 2 1/2 years ago, I quickly added both the blog feed to my reader and the monthly e-mail newsletter to my mailbox, as well as purchasing her excellent e-book “Guide to Online Writing Markets” late last year. Great stuff here!
1. Make A Living Writing – Carol Tice and her blog have become my “go-to” place these past few months for guidance in mapping out my freelance writing career hopes. Real-world advice from a writer who has been there and still is, offering information that will aid you in the pursuit of your dream. Her e-book, “Make a Living Writing: The 21st Century Guide” is full of excellent, usable material (I’ve read it 3 times since purchasing it late last year) and on this blog she regularly gives out free advice about how to improve your own blog and web presence. In addition, Ms. Tice has begun conducting webinars for freelance writers on subjects such as “How to Break In and Earn Big as a Freelance Writer” and “40 Ways to Market Your Writing.”
Those are my current Top 10 Blogs For Freelance Writers. As I mentioned above, your mileage may vary but I believe everyone will learn or gain something from reading these blogs.
And I’m always searching for more good blogs on being a freelance writer, so if you have a freelance writing blog of your own or read one that you think is always helpful to you as a writer, please leave a link in the comments so we can all enjoy the goodness.
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Where To Find The Word of Jeff Work Online
Thank you to all of you who have “Liked” The Word of Jeff Facebook Page. I just thought I’d take this opportunity to welcome those who have connected recently and provide a list of where else you can find my work online.
The Word of Jeff blog – My writing blog (those posts, like this one, are automatically posted to the Facebook Page)
The Verbal Vagabond – My travel blog
Postcards From Maggie Valley – My Maggie Valley, NC photography blog
The Masked Blogger – My comic book industry blog
My articles on Suite101 – I’m formerly a feature writer and currently a contributing writer to Suite101
If you haven’t already, I invite you to visit these other sites and again, thank you for liking The Word of Jeff Facebook Page.
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The Writer’s Knowledge Base
When it comes to search engines, Google is pretty much the king for most people. They are, after all, the 800 pound gorilla of online searching.
But for specialized search results, say for writers, Google does not always provide useful, relevant or meaningful results. That’s where the Writer’s Knowledge Base steps in.
The Writer’s Knowledge Base is the brainchild of mystery writer Elizabeth Spann Craig and software engineer Mike Fleming. Elizabeth had begun collecting a massive amount of writing tips, writing articles, writing blogs and anything else she could locate on the Internet that addressed subjects that were pertinent to writers. She would share these links in her own blog and in her Tweets, but she worried that the information was not readily available unless a reader, like her, amassed a huge amount of bookmarks for later perusal.
Elizabeth wondered aloud on her blog if there wasn’t some better way to make this writer specific information available and that’s where Mike Fleming entered the picture. Mike created a searchable collection of Elizabeth’s ever-growing writing links and thus The Writer’s Knowledge Base was born. WKB, as Mike states on his own blog, is especially helpful in being writer-centric because…
“The search is done instantly over thousands of writing-related articles ranging from character development to author promotion on social media. Unlike Google, all of the results are relevant to you as a writer. They may not all interest you, of course, but at least searching for “plot” will bring back articles on how to plot your story and not news articles on terrorist plots.”
I did a few cursory searches for myself and found the links and information to be extremely relevant, informative and helpful. I’m excited that Elizabeth and Mike have put this resource out there for writers to make use of in our daily writing work and I’ve placed a box link to WKB on my sidebar to make it easier for visitors here to access.
Give it a look and see what you think.
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